Warranty Cost Analysis (ePub)

WALLACE R. BUSCHKE is an Associate Professor in the Decision Systems Department of the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Consultant in statistical analysis. The author of over 30 professional papers, Dr. Blischke is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the Institute of Management Sciences, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Biometric Society, among others. He received the B.S. degree (1956) in mathematics from Elmhurst College, Illinois, and the M.S. (1958) and Ph.D. (1961) degrees in statistics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York., D. N. PRABHAKAR MURTHY is the Academic Director of the Technology Management Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. The author or coauthor of over 150 professional papers and the coauthor of a book on mathematical modelling, Dr. Murthy is a founding member of the International Technology Management Association and a member of the Institute of Management Sciences, the Operations Research Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Institute of Industrial Engineers, among others. He received the B.E. degree (1965) in electrical engineering from Jabalpur University, India, the M.E. degree (1967) in electronics from the Indian Institute of Science, and the M.S. (1971) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.